Don Hayes, Nibbler69, Kernzy, Potante, BeeJay will play the following games:

1st Game: Starforce

romname: starforc

1st Place on MARP: 10.265.700 by Novice

Avoid use autofire for this game !

2nd game: Guzzler

romname: guzzler

1st Place on MARP: 1.272.580 by MassimoGaspari@AIVA

Deadline for submission to MARP: July 19, 2012 19.59 hours GMT

IMPORTANT: considering there are 10 days of competition, the bonus point check point will expires on July 14 (Saturday) 19.59 hours GMT

I hope I've picked up games where no one of you is very strong, so the competition will be fair.
Guzzler is not very famous, but I think is very nice and Star Force ... may be the best golden era's shooter.
Good luck !

hi chaps,
starforce is quite a samey run of the mill vertical shmup, lost their grip on me in the mid nineties. but guzzler looks fun, spitting water everywhere!
anyone got any tips about guzzler, so i have a fair chance of competition? any help would be greatly appreciated. i watched an inp, and when the central item is got (like a power pill), the dude did not eat any red baddies, while it feels like he should. why's that then?
all the best, and good luck,
paul.

No, you just have to have the "selection" rectangle around an unclaimed letter when you water some of the enemies. You have a limited amount of control of the lettering based on which direction you push the joystick, at least that's what I've managed to work out on my first few games this evening. It's not a game I've played before so it's all a learning curve on this one. At least Star Force is similar to other vertical shmups so that makes it a little easier to learn.

It's just so disheartening to not get enough points to even beat the 30k you need to put your initials in... that's a fairly high initial target score to beat to even get on the leader board on the game!!